
ALFRED—Mammoth New Blackberry—Practically Coreless 

Highest Quality—Large Jet Black Berries—-Exceedingly Productive 
These are a few characteristics of the New Alfred Blackberry. This New Variety is taking first place in the 
plantings of the best commercial growers, producing larger crops of finer fruit than Eldorado, Blower and the 
other old reliable kinds. 
For the Home Garden, Alfred is the ideal Blackberry. Think of a bush loaded with tremendously big jetty 
Blackberries from 114 to 1% inches long, 
practically free from seeds, coreless and 
with a pulp fairly bursting with juice. That’s 
Alfred. 
Theearliest to 
Early Harvest ripen and the 
most productive of the early sorts. Scarff’s 
Heavy Fruiting Strain Early Harvest. 
This is one of the most val- 
Eldorado uable varieties for market 
and home use. It is a strong, upright grower 
and the fruit is jet black, never coloring red 
after picking; fully as large again as the 
average Snyder berry. The flavor dis excel- 
lent, imparting a rich aroma, melting and 
juicy with but little core. Highly recommend- 
ed everywhere. 
Most Eldorado Blackberries propa- 
gated from root cuttings have seriously 
reverted to the wild type. The Eldorado 
Plants we are offering this year are dug 
from heavy fruiting patches and are as 
free from mixture as possible to get 
them. 

~ The berries are far larger 
Luc retia and incomparably better 
than any blackberry and of unequalled ex- 
ceilence; soft, sweet, and luscious through- 
out; of brightest glossy black color. Most 
desirable variety for Ohio conditions. 





CULTURAL SUGGESTIONS 
Planting distances, pruning, and general culture same as for Red Raspberries (see page 8). 
Keep suckers thinned out to not closer than 8 to 10 inches apart to insure ample space for fruiting canes 
and which will result in finer larger berries. 
All bramble fruits profit by applications of commercial fertilizers containing plenty of Nitrogen, or 
well rotted manure in early Spring. Soils with plenty of humus are always best for Small Fruits. 
Sulphur dusts during or just prior to early spring rains prevents leaf spot and is an aid in control of 
orange rust. Remove any plants showing disease and 

Bearing Age Blackberries 
Heavy two-year-old plants can be supplied in all varieties 
at elas 50% higher than listed below for our one-year 
plants. 
BRAINERD BLACKBERRY 
A New Tremendously Heavy Yielding Blackberry for 
the Central, Southern and Pacific Coast States 
A trailing type much hardier and better in all other respects 
than the Himalaya. Brainerd is extremely productive of very 
large clusters of high quality berries when fully ripe and which 
contain relatively smaller seeds than other blackberries of this 
type. The Department of Agriculture has made numerous tests 
of this variety and because of its greater hardiness and tre- 
mendous yields of large, highly-flavored berries has deemed it 
a very worth-while variety and worthy of introduction. 




Blackberry Prices 
Postpaid By Express—Not Prepald 
6 12 25 100 200 1000 
Alfred Rape $ .90 $1.25 $1.85 $4.25 $8.00 $27.50 
Brainerd ........ 1.10 1.75 2.75 6.50 
Ea. Harvest .... .85 1.20 1.75 4.00 7.50 26.50 
Eldorado _........ .85 1.20 1.75 4.00 7.50 26.50 
Lucretia 
Dewberry .... .65 1.00 1.55 3.50 6.25 18.00 
All POSTPAID prices 10% higher west of Mississippi river. 









burn them immediately. 



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